5.) 02 Jan 2019 18:25:56
Leafs are sitting at 7th lowest GA right now. Admittedly shots against are pretty high, so one can make a case that Andersen has been saving the Leafs bacon on occasion. But still, the so-called dire need for a high end RHD is overblown. I don’t know what St. Louis will get for Pietrangelo if he is traded, but Leafs have no need to blow up the team trying to get him. Washington trades a 3rd for Kempny last year. Pittsburgh traded a 4th for Oleksiak. Neither team is known for defense and instead relied on high octane offense to power their way to championship. And I expect Leafs are planning very much the same idea.

7.) 03 Jan 2019 14:57:22
Then stop asking for him. Leafs gm tell your fan base to stop. If you don't need a top pairing rhd then stop asking for parayko or petro. The problem is you don't want to pay what it takes to get the guy you want. I see you post on leafs page you encourage leaf fans to low ball. Here on the main board you can't do that you will get called out. Good luck on finding d help with out paying.

Also 7ga has to do with team play. Not just d. 7th is not best and could cause you to lose the cup.

8.) 03 Jan 2019 15:00:41
Bracco has no trade value. I love how every da t the offer is less and less. At this point blues just resign petro. They keep parayko and tell leaf fans to harrasss another fan base.

Other than the fact that I don’t think New York can afford Nylander, is there any other reason why they wouldn’t make this trade? I mean, Vesey is nothing special, and Smith is an overaged defenseman who has missed large chunks of the last two seasons. The pick is what it is. Am I missing something?

4.) 14 Oct 2018 06:55:10
They would still have to win the lottery. It’s a real gamble. With teams like Ottawa, Arizona, NYI all looking like they are going to race to the bottom, it’s not a sure bet. And then we would still have to wait a year, maybe more, while the pick develops.

I’m not sure about this one from Leafs standpoint. I don’t know how I feel about trading Nylander for picks. Every draft has way more busts than winners. We’ve had a good run at the draft lately. Makes me think we are due for a dud.

With the trades involving Nylander and Canucks on here, everyone says they wouldn’t trade that 1st rounder either. The difference is Canucks already have a great young core coming up that Nylander would compliment (Peterson, Horvat, Boeser, Hughes and Juolevi) . Rangers don’t. Rangers making a trade like this, although only one 1st rounder not 2, reminds me of leafs with Kessel. Weren’t a good team, traded high picks for an RFA winger who had proven he was a 60 pt player, and the pick becomes Seguin who is as good or better, younger and cheaper for a few years.

So instead of adding Nylander to a young core, you risk what happened with the leafs which is you had a great 1st line winger and no one else around him. Even his Centreman (Bozak) was a 3rd line on good teams, 2nd centre on some. Teams getting Nylander should already have a foundation because he’s not the type of guy you Centre your rebuild around. Look at Kessel flourish after not being ‘the guy’.

6.) 14 Sep 2018 17:20:34
In terms of value, ignoring team needs, I would say it would need to be a very good center or defenseman, plus picks or prospects depending on who the main piece is. Wingers just don't carry the value in general to land a top defenseman, simply because it is far easier to find a good winger than it is a top defenseman. Especially a right handed one.

7.) 14 Sep 2018 17:31:20
Subban isn’t the D I’d want to bring in anyway. Makes a ton of money, and I think drama follows him, whether it be his fault or not. Big personality and that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

If we could get him cheap assets wise, and he didn’t make $9 mill, then it might be worth the risk but that just won’t happen. However to give up good assets, pay him that kind of money and risk dressing room issues, no thanks.

10.) 14 Sep 2018 22:15:16
I think subban is in that ehlers/ Nylander class as well value wise, then add on the RHD premium over a winger and he probably gets a slightly better return. But definitely not laine/ matthews type players lol that’s just not going to happen. Both those guys could score 50 goals and are 20/ 21 years old. No way a really good 29 year old Dman making $9mill gets you that lol.

06 Jul 2015 16:13:07
The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward Shawn Matthias to a one-year contract. Matthias, 26, scored 18 goals and nine assists in 78 games with the Vancouver Canucks in 2014-15.

HockeyGod

1.) 06 Jul 2015 16:24:42
Just wanna say as a Canucks fan and watching Mattias all year half his goals must've come in January. He seemed like a good player but you just never really noticed him out there. He would show signs of being a good player but it just wasn't there, may have been because he was playing without the puck more then with it. Wish him the best in T.O

27 Nov 2018 00:28:16
I disagree! Gardiner is a defensive liability. He has proven this over and over for years. Alzner has shown that he can be a solid dman when given the an opportunity like when he played in Washington.

06 Jul 2015 16:55:06
Rangers only have 17 players under contracts with $10,675,000 left in cap space. If Derek Stepan goes arbitration then he would get in the range of 6.5 to 7 + for 2 years. The Rangers can't afford it!

06 Jul 2015 15:59:18
Stepan Derek is 25 and Yandle is 28 which is still young enough to be part of a rebuild. Bozak is 28 and his stats show that his point production is equal or better than Stepan Derek not to mention his salary cap hit would be at least 2.5 to 3 million less. The Rangers can't sign Stepan Derek for the money he's going to ask for and there are few teams that will be able to sign him for those dollars $$$. Yandle did not perform for the Ranger as expected and will also ask for a raise from his current 2.9 million per which again the Ranger can't afford. The Ranger will need a decent back for Lundqvist and Gardiner need a fresh start.